Robstown, Texas, Jul 5, 2011 / 03:13 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Father John Corapis religious order has found him guilty of substance abuse, sexual activity and violating his promise of poverty.

A July 5 press release from the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) said that while Fr. Corapi was involved in public ministry he had sexual relations and years of cohabitation with a woman known to him, when the relationship began, as a prostitute.

The investigative team also found that he repeatedly abused alcohol and drugs, recently engaged in sexting activity with one or more women in Montana, and holds legal title to over $1 million in real estate, numerous luxury vehicles, motorcycles, an ATV, a boat dock, and several motor boats.

So true - very sad. I am not Catholic, but I always watched him on tv. It seems to me that the problem is with the Leadership in the Catholic Church (or any church) that lets problems fester for way too long, and then there’s nowhere to go but downhill. When you have a compelling story about your salvation by the Grace of Jesus, but your life in action is so worldly, are we saying that no one in authority knew any of this.

Check the source pal. CNA published this story on the 12th, probably because SOLT just recently released it in its entirety. It isn’t known how to post up a law suit on which there has been no public reporting.

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posted on 07/10/2012 6:34:11 PM PDT
by RitaOK
(NO ROMNEY, NO COMPROMISE. NO WAY. NO HOW. NOT NOW. NOT EVER.)

I enjoyed listening as well.I thought He was a bomb thrower and a bit bull sh!t artist on His stories about the rock bands worshiping satin just prior to recording. But thats just my opinion and I’m not looking for a fight.

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posted on 07/10/2012 6:39:58 PM PDT
by reefdiver
(Shoeless John Roberts, An American Tragedy.)

I am wondering if Father Corapi dropped the slander law suit by now, given he was surely notified of the findings, the hard evidence discovered in the face of the gag order agreements of witnesses to his own suit against them?

A sorrowful end to a powerful voice and gifted priest, who came out of hell to try to be good and truthful, but was pulled back under.

Father Corapi is easy to pray for, and shall remain in praying hearts for recovery, for a very long time.

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posted on 07/10/2012 6:46:33 PM PDT
by RitaOK
(NO ROMNEY, NO COMPROMISE. NO WAY. NO HOW. NOT NOW. NOT EVER.)

This is very old news, and it is sad that the poster appears to be trying to pass it off as current.

To put this in context from a website that seems to have the best information:

Summary of the current status of the Father John Corapi case - The Timeline

1. Tamra Sexton was fired in September 2009, for cause. This is known because of the court filing in Montana by Corapi, made public on the blog of Jimmy Akin, reporter for the National Catholic Register, earlier this summer.

2. Her husband, Matt Sprinkle, had his contract with Santa Cruz Media terminated in the middle of 2010, which is also in the court filing.

3. Corapi also initiated foreclosure proceedings on a home and property occupied by Tamra and Matt in 2010, near Corapis own home in Kalispell, Montana. There is a pregnant pause between mid 2010 and early 2011, then:

4. Accusations were made by Tamra Sexton Sprinkle on or about Ash Wednesday, 2011.

5. SOLT made the allegations public, along with declaring that Corapi was being put on administrative leave.

6. Corapi issued a statement stating he doesnt like the canonical proceedings, but will cooperate.

7. SOLT assembled a three person fact finding team to investigate Tamras allegations.

8. Bishop Rene Gracida, retired bishop of Corpus Christi, and Father Flannagan, founder of Corapis society SOLT, contacted Corapi to inform him that the current process of suspension was usually not just in the Church now, and that he would be better served by pursuing a civil case.

9. Corapi and Santa Cruz Media files the civil suit.

10. Fr. Sheehan of SOLT states publicly that the canonical process has stopped because of the civil lawsuit. We will find out that in private, however, the investigation went on.

11. Corapi resigned from public ministry, stopped referring to himself as Father, adopted the name he gave himself for his autobiography  the Black Sheepdog  and also resigned from SOLT on or about June 17, 2011.

12. Fr. Sheehan of SOLT shortly thereafter acknowledged Corapis resignation and SOLT will work with him in his time of transition.

13. Not a mere three weeks later, on July 5, 2011, SOLT issued a letter, unsigned by Father Sheehan and apparently written by someone else, since it refers to Fr. Sheehan in the third person. It stated that all of the allegations made by Tamra Sexton are true. SOLT warns the faithful not to associate with Corapi. It then, strangely, orders Corapi to stop foreclosure proceedings against Tamra Sexton, drop his lawsuit against her, and lastly orders him to return to community in Corpus Christi.

14. Corapi did not comply.

It sounds to me as if there was a personnel issue at Santa Cruz Media which snowballed into an opportunity for Fr. Corapi's community to jealously take him out of ministry. The accuser Tamra Sexton-Sprinkle's Linked-In page now lists her as the owner of Santa Cruz Media which is now nothing more than a rather pathetic web development business. I think every one involved might have played an extortive game of "Mutually Assured Destruction" with the wrong priest.

You are absolutely correct and I sit here with pink cheeks on fire with embarrassment, and egg on the way to apply to the face. I think I have experienced a senior moment of clinical proportion. Haven’t a clue how I deduced 2012 from a 2011 column. Don’t even ask about the imaginary 12th of never. Very sorry.

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posted on 07/10/2012 7:26:32 PM PDT
by RitaOK
(NO ROMNEY, NO COMPROMISE. NO WAY. NO HOW. NOT NOW. NOT EVER.)

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